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John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jfk Assassination

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy also known as JFK was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the son of Joseph and Rose Kennedy and he is one of nine children. JFK came from a very successful family. His father Joseph was a successful business man and a politician. He left his children a lot of money after he passed away. John went to Harvard. After John and his brother Joe graduated from Harvard, they enlisted in the navy. John became a Lieutenant in the Navy. He was assigned to the South Pacific as a commander of a patrol torpedo boat, the PT-109. John received many military awards and decorations. After his military service in the Naval Reserve in World War II, John represented Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in …show more content…

He verbally supported racial integration and civil rights. In his first State of the Union Address, President Kennedy said "The denial of constitutional rights to some of our fellow Americans on account of race - at the ballot box and elsewhere - disturbs the national conscience, and subjects us to the charge of world opinion that our democracy is not equal to the high promise of our heritage”.(1)
President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, while on official business for the white house. He was shot twice and died at only forty six years old. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested that day and the police determined that he was the one that fired the shots that hit the President from a sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository. The owner of a Dallas nightclub named Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald two days later in a jail hallway.
John F Kennedy was a unique man. He was younger and popular and had an effect on so many people and in so many different aspects of his life and career. He was a family man who managed to have a wife and kids and a very distinguished political career in a very short amount of time because his life was cut short. He had an impact on the space program, relations with Cuba, segregation in the United States, and many other national and foreign affairs. He was loved by the citizens of the United States and the country grieved when he

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